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24 LGBT+ Books by Black Authors

I’m seeing a lot of the same books on my dash, so I spent a few hours researching some lesser-known books. These books fall across a variety of genres and age group. 

24 LGBT+ Book by Black Authors 16 Books by Transgender/Non-Binary Black Authors 27 LGBT+ YA Books by Black Authors

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@thearcanagame Happy birthday Julian Devorak

Art by me, you can find me on Instagram as erin_5arts

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girls who are in love with girls? *french kiss* that’s art

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casual reminder that fat trans & nonbinary people are spectacular, regardless of size, health, and whether or not you pass !! none these factors play any role in your inherent value and worthiness as a person and your validity as a trans/nonbinary person !! you are deserving of so much love, respect, and support !! lots of love to each and every one of you !!

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people don't hate "platonic male intimacy" they hate men seeming gay because they're homophobic and homophobia is normalized. shut the fuck up about normalizing platonic intimacy. stop pretending straight males are the victims of toxic masculinity and homophobia and gay men aren't. what is wrong with all of you

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my anonymous friend sent me this and i thought this was really beautiful

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i kno this is a #hot take but there is nothing wrong with having acne actually, and having imperfect skin in general is a normal thing that says nothing about your personal hygiene.

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‘The broken shore interrupted. A shadowed presence emerged.’

Photographed by Freddie Ardley

Instagram @freddieardley

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on the first day of class my astronomy professor asked us why the night sky was dark. if our universe is infinite, how can there be spaces between the stars? he didn’t answer the question until the last day– because our universe is relatively young, and is still growing. it is finite. not enough stars or galaxies have been formed to fill up the entire night sky.

but what that means to me is that somewhere, in an older universe, the night sky looks like a tapestry of diamonds. somewhere darkness is pale white and glittering. imagine being so surrounded. i haven’t gotten that image out of my head ever since– you could never navigate under such a sky but god it sounds lovely

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Rank the Evens on how likely their writers are to make them cheat (for the first time in David's case and again for the others).

1. eliott

(i hope skamfr stans are happy that i am ranking eliott in first place) anyway, his ex-girlfriend said he has cheated on her multiple times because of his mental illness (extremely offensive statement, good job @skamfr writers), and lucas has expressed concerns that eliott might cheat because he has more options since he is pansexual (great representation… and i know it ended up being a preachy teaching moment, but still great writing choice), and eliott himself has said “humans are never satisfied” (again, wow how original, what a good life lesson). all my money is on lola at this point. bonne chance, skamfr

2. sander

with the amount of times he has already cheated in season 3, both on britt and then on robbe, i don’t see why not. maybe he will be the one to kiss beglian yousef? or maybe there will be a subplot about sander being coerced to cheat on robbe again which will be left open-ended so they can maybe explore it in season 32 

3. even

okay… not saying even would ever cheat on isak but i do feel like if they ever revived skam the writers would decide to stir up some trouble in paradise, not because i believe evak would be unhappy - I actually think it’s totally ooc for even to cheat on isak - but because without any evak drama a major part of the fandom wouldn’t give a single fuck anymore lol 

4. the italian one whose name i can never remember

they are boring gays, the writers would never do anything exciting with them anyway, they just exist now, they won’t give them any subplots anymore

5. joana

i almost ranked joana last because i think skam españa respects women too much to ever disrespect them and make them cheat but i mean 1) joana did cheat on eloy and 2) eva also cheated on jorge… but still, eskam loves women and they would never make up some random drama and make joana cheat, they also wouldn’t perpetuate the horrible stereotype that people with bpd or bisexual people are more likely to cheat because that is hurtful to two entire communities 

6. david

david has never cheated on anyone in his life, and he will never cheat on anyone ever. he is fully committed to matteo, no doubt about it. david is an introvert who barely wanted to get into a relationship with matteo in the first place (matteo literally had to chase him for weeks) so i doubt he would be interested in casually hooking up with some random person 

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hey i know i’m never on here anymore but i’m trying to leave my abusive household so if you could donate that’d be great 

cashapp: $lizziea202

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person: how are you?

me, not feeling any extreme pain or euphoria: i literally have no fuckin idea

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guys shut the fuck up this is the only thing im gonna talk about for the rest of all time 

(publicly shared video of a sweetheart’s dance from Rodney Stanger on fb)

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I mean it legit doesn't matter whether that person is autistic or whether they're just a little weird. It doesn't matter whether that person has social anxiety or whether they're just very introverted. It doesn't matter whether that person is schizophrenic or just spiritual in an eccentric way. It doesn't matter whether that person is traumatized or just a little extra sensitive. If they aren't harming anyone, just let them be. Being different is not a crime and you do not need a diagnosis to "justify" it.

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